ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS STATEMENT ON GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL

14:04 21/04/2015 >> SOCIETY

The Armenian National Assembly adopted the statement on the Armenian
Genocide Centennial during a special session on Tuesday.

The authors of the draft statement are MPs Zaruhi Postanjyan, Vahe
Enfiajyan, Artak Zakaryan, Koryun Nahapetyan, Araik Hovhannisyan, Naira
Karapetyan, Artashes Geghamyan, Hamlet Harutyunyan, Sukias Avetisyan,
Alexander Arzumanian, Shirak Torosyan, Samvel Farmanyan, Volodya
Badalyan, Tatshat Vardapetyan, Mher Shahgeldyan and Artsvik Minasyan.

The draft statement was adopted unanimously with 113 votes.

The text of the statement is provided below:

“The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

– having regard to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of the Genocide adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly on 9 December 1948, the law on the Condemnation of the 1915
Genocide of the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey adopted by the Armenian
SSR Supreme Council on 22 November 1988;

– evaluating the provisions stipulated in the All-Armenian Declaration
of the Armenian Genocide Centennial,

– highlighting the contribution of the Armenian people to the joint
efforts of the international community aimed at crimes against mankind,
condemnation and prevention of genocides,

– extending gratitude to the parliaments of all countries, state
and local institutions and international organizations, which have
officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, have adopted laws
criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial,

Calls on the parliaments of all countries, inter-parliamentary
organizations and international organizations to officially recognize
and condemn the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire
as a gravest crime against mankind.”